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<h4 class="subsection">3.5.2 HIDDEN</h4>
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<p>For ELF targeted ports, define a symbol that will be hidden and won&rsquo;t be
exported.  The syntax is <code>HIDDEN(<var>symbol</var> = <var>expression</var>)</code>.
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<pre class="smallexample">HIDDEN(floating_point = 0);
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{
  .text :
    {
      *(.text)
      HIDDEN(_etext = .);
    }
  HIDDEN(_bdata = (. + 3) &amp; ~ 3);
  .data : { *(.data) }
}
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<p>In this case none of the three symbols will be visible outside this module.
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